Chrome extension "YouTube-HTML5-ifier" replaces the flash-based YouTube player with a HTML5 video tag – thus giving you native video playback without the need for a CPU hungry Flash plugin! The extension can’t show any flash-reliant […]
“On the first day of Xmas Gwibber gave to me, my social networks in a tree…” Tree-view, that is. Yes, Gwibber 2.0 introduced a revamped UI alongside other changes earlier this year – all designed […]
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Although we here at OMG! Ubuntu! are Ubuntu fans (shock, right?) it’s always interesting (and a bit exciting) to take a look at what else exists out there, in the wild waters of alternative operating […]
The title says it all, really. A PPA for 64bit Ubuntu users to get the latest Adobe Flash plugin from. In light of the recent malware issues from .deb’s on gnome-look.org I’ve checked over these […]
We’re massive fans of Dock application ‘Docky’ here at OMG! Ubuntu! and one of the principle designers working on it is a young man with a wonderfully conceptual imagination by the name of ‘Dan Rabbit’. […]
One of the most popular themes for GNOME, Elementary theme, has finally landed itself in a PPA so that users may stay up-to-date with the latest tweaks, changes and improvements to the already flawless theme. […]
Lucid may not be getting a new GTK theme but it will still be getting an entirely new look. Ubuntu’s Ayatana team (most famed for creating those awesome ‘new’ notification balloons that came in Jaunty) […]
The first Alpha of the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx development cycle will be released later on today. This will be the first of 3 Alpha releases, the following of which will arrive January 14th and […]
Yesterday we were the first to bring you the news about malware being targeted at Ubuntu users, and today, sadly, another malicious file was uploaded to gnome-look, this time masquerading as a theme called ‘Ninja’. […]
We exclusively told you last week that a "refresh" (I.E. a new alpha version) of Adobe’s Flash Plugin for 64bit Linux was going to be released on the 8th of December and lo and behold […]
Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous ‘waterfall’ screensaver .deb file made available on popular artwork sharing site Gnome-Look.org. The .deb file installs a script with elevated privileges designed to perform a DDoS attack […]